computer
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From compute + -er. Doublet of cantore, counter, and kontor. First sense first appears c. 1613 in the works of the poet Richard Brathwait. Second sense first appears c. 1897 in the magazine Engineering.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəmˈpjuːtə/
Audio (UK): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /kəmˈpjutɚ/, [kəmˈpʰjuɾɚ]
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: com‧put‧er
Noun
[edit]computer (plural computers)
- (now rare, chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes. [from 17th c.]
- 1613, Richard Brathwait, The Yong Mans Gleanings[1], page 1:
- I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number: The daies of Man are threescore and ten.
- 1674, “To the Guardian-Angel”, in Reflexions upon the Devotions of the Roman Church, London: Richard Royston, page 419:
- By which manner of ſpeaking, this Propheteſs, who is ſo exact a Computer, would have us, I ſuppoſe, to conclude, that it would be a great miſtake to think that the number of Angels was either 9, or 11 for one of Men.
- 1927, J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds and Other Essays[2], London: Chatto & Windus, page 173:
- Only a few years ago Mr. Powers, an American computer, disproved a hypothesis about prime numbers which had held the field for more than 250 years.
- 2001, Michael L. overton, Numerical Computing with IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic, SIAM, page 1:
- During World War II, scientific laboratories had rooms full of people doing different parts of a complicated calculation using pencil and paper, slide rules, and mechanical calculators. At that time, the word computer referred to a person, and those group calculations may be viewed as the early steps of parallel computing.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 116:
- One Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon, used her repetitive acquaintance with the stars to devise a system of stellar classifications so practical that it is still in use today.
- Synonyms: computator, mental calculator, human calculator
- Hyponym: computress
- (by restriction, chiefly historical) A male computer.
- Coordinate term: (female) computress
- A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media. [from 20th c.]
- Synonyms: processor, (informal) 'puter, (slang) box, machine, calculator; see also Thesaurus:computer
- Hyponyms: desktop, laptop, portable computer, stored-program computer
- I spend around 6 hours a day at the computer.
- As well as saving the photos on my computer, I have them backed up on a USB drive.
- David is a computer expert.
- Janet works at the computer store.
Usage notes
[edit]- In modern everyday use, smartphones and tablets are not typically referred to as computers.
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:computer.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (programmable electronic device): electronic device, machine
Hyponyms
[edit]- analog computer
- analogue computer
- appliance computer
- biocomputer / biological computer
- briefcase computer
- classical computer
- deskside computer
- desktop computer
- digital computer
- dive computer
- domino computer
- electromechanical computer / electro-mechanical computer
- electronic computer
- gaming computer
- home computer
- hybrid computer
- laptop computer
- microcomputer
- midrange computer
- minicomputer
- notebook computer
- pedestal computer
- personal computer
- pocket computer
- quantum computer
- reservoir computer
- server computer
- spatial computer
- supercomputer
- tablet computer
- ternary computer
- wearable computer
- zombie computer
Derived terms
[edit]- anticomputer
- compucondria
- compunications
- compusex
- computeracy
- computer-aided design
- computer-aided translation
- computer architecture
- computerate
- computerbased
- computer-based, computer-based teaching
- computer chess
- computer chip
- computercide
- computer code
- computer conferencing
- computer-controlled timing
- computer core
- computer dating
- computerdom
- computer engineering
- computerese
- computeresque
- computerette
- computerful
- computer game
- Computergate
- computer graphics
- computerholic
- computer illiteracy
- computer illiteracy
- computerisation
- computerise
- computerism
- computerist
- computeristic
- computeritis
- computerize
- computer lab
- computerland
- computer language
- computerless
- computerlike
- computer literacy, computer-literate/computer literate
- computerlore
- computer-mediated communication
- computer model
- computer network
- computernik
- computerologist
- computerology
- computer paper
- computer person
- computerphile
- computerphobe
- computerphobia
- computerphobic
- computerphone
- computer processor
- computer program (computer programme), computer programming
- computer says no
- computer science, computer scientist
- computer security
- computer shop
- computer simulation
- computerspeak
- computer system
- computer technician
- computer typesetting
- computer virus
- computer vision, computer vision syndrome
- computerware
- computery
- computress
- computronium
- cyclocomputer
- human-computer interaction
- hypercomputer
- intercomputer
- macrocomputer
- maxicomputer
- mecomtronics
- memcomputer
- multicomputer
- neurocomputer
- noncomputer
- precomputer
- precomputers
- telecomputer
- transputer
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Albanian: kompjuter
- → Amharic: ኮምፒዩተር (kompiyutär)
- → Arabic: كَمْبْيُوتَر (kambyūtar)
- → Azerbaijani: kompüter
- → Belarusian: камп'ю́тар (kampʺjútar), кампу́тар (kampútar), камп'ю́тэр (kampʺjúter)
- → Bengali: কম্পিউটার (kompiuṭar)
- → Bulgarian: компю́тър (kompjútǎr)
- → Burmese: ကွန်ပျူတာ (kwanpyuta)
- → Danish: computer
- → Dutch: computer
- → Estonian: kompuuter
- → Georgian: კომპიუტერი (ḳomṗiuṭeri)
- → German: Computer
- → Greek: κομπιούτερ (kompioúter)
- → Hindi: कंप्यूटर (kampyūṭar)
- → Indonesian: komputer
- → Italian: computer
- → Japanese: コンピューター (konpyūtā)
- → Khmer: កុំព្យូទ័រ (kompyuutɔə)
- → Korean: 컴퓨터 (keompyuteo)
- → Kyrgyz: компьютер (kompyuter)
- → Lao: ຄອມພິວເຕີ (khǭm phiu tœ̄)
- → Latvian: kompjūters
- → Lithuanian: kompiuteris
- → Luxembourgish: Computer
- → Macedonian: компју́тер (kompjúter)
- → Malay: komputer
- → Malayalam: കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ (kampyūṭṭaṟ)
- → Maltese: kompjuter
- → Northern Kurdish: kompûter
- → Odia: କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର (kampyuṭara)
- → Persian: کامپیوتر (kâmpyutar)
- → Pitcairn-Norfolk: kompyuuta
- → Polish: komputer
- → Romanian: computer
- → Romansch: computer
- → Russian: компью́тер (kompʹjúter)
- → Carpathian Rusyn: компю́тер (kompjúter)
- → Scottish Gaelic: coimpiutair
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Swahili: kompyuta
- → Tagalog: kompiyuter
- → Tajik: компютер (kompyuter), компутар (komputar)
- → Telugu: కంప్యూటర్ (kampyūṭar)
- → Thai: คอมพิวเตอร์ (kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə)
- → Tok Pisin: kompyuta
- → Turkmen: kompýuter
- → Turkish: kompüter (obsolete)
- → Ukrainian: комп'ю́тер (kompʺjúter)
- → Urdu: کمپیوٹر (kampyūṭar)
- → Uyghur: كومپيۇتېر (kompyutër)
- → Xhosa: ikhompyutha
- → Yakut: көмпүүтэр (kömpüüter)
- → Yiddish: קאָמפּיוטער (kompyuter)
- → Zulu: ikhompyutha
Translations
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Verb
[edit]computer (third-person singular simple present computers, present participle computering, simple past and past participle computered) (rare, nonstandard)
- (intransitive) To use a computer.
- 2004, The World According to Mimi Smartypants, London: HarperCollinsEntertainment, →ISBN, page 36:
- I don't know if you have the same violent mood-swing issues that I do, but I was bustling around the house feeling very useful and good, and then I was sitting here computering for a while, and suddenly it was like a giant butterfly net scooped me up and threw me into an old mayonnaise jar, […]
- 2017 May 16, Alyssa Shelasky, “What I Discovered When I Outsourced My Back Pain”, in New York Magazine[4], New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-31:
- I'm constantly computering, schlepping, stressing, and hauling ass like the rest of us. We are New Yorkers.
- 2019 December 20, “Finding Mr. Right”, in Harley Quinn, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Harley Quinn (Kaley Cuoco):
- Yeah, you saw what he could do when he flips out. I mean, how am I going to say no to that? Plus, he does computer good.
- (transitive) To send via computer.
- 1988, Marcel Montecino, The Crosskiller, New York, N.Y.: Arbor House; William Morrow, →ISBN, page 351:
- They had immediately computered the description out to the scores of law enforcement agencies in Southern California.
- 2001, Will Kingdom, Mean Spirit, London […]: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 428:
- 'Nah. It was him hated it more than me. Fish out of water. Cops watching every move he makes. Memos about him computered to every nick in the land. He was too innocent for this hi-tech world, Bobby. Would've been back inside in no time at all.'
- (transitive) To transfer onto a computer; to computerize.
- 1972 March 20, Benny L. Kass, quotee, U.S. Government Information Policies and Practices: Administration and Operation of the Freedom of Information Act, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 1425:
- I know there are storage warehouses in New York and Virginia and all over the place, St. Louis, and many other places, that keep these things. I think this is a very fertile area for this committee, and perhaps computering it, or microfilm preservation, or things of that sort.
- 1983, H. Ahrendt, N. Clauer, J. C. Hunziker, K. Weber, “Migration of Folding and Metamorphism in the Rheinische Schiefergebirge Deduced from K-Ar and Rb-Sr Age Determinations”, in Intracontinental Fold Belts: Case Studies in the Variscan Belt of Europe and the Damara Belt in Namibia, Berlin […]: Springer-Verlag, , →ISBN, page 336:
- Our sincere thanks are due to Antje Reuter, Jens Adam and Uwe Horstmann for computering the manuscript and Ralph Phillips and Kirsten Techmer for proof reading it.
- 1988, Shimon Applebaum, “Foreward”, in Judaea in Hellenistic and Roman Times, Leiden […]: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- It is also a pleasure to recommend the skill of Irit Markan who carried out the work of 'computering' the text, and of Ivor Ludlam who bore the labour of proof reading—both the English and the Greek.
Derived terms
[edit]- computered (adjective)
- computering (gerund)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Richard Brathwaite, Of the Mortalite of Man, 1613
- computer – Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989).
Further reading
[edit]- Category:computer on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English computer.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]computer c (singular definite computeren, plural indefinite computere)
- computer (machine)
Declension
[edit]common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | computer | computeren | computere | computerne |
genitive | computers | computerens | computeres | computernes |
Dutch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- kompjoeter (eye dialect, humorous)
Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English computer.
Noun
[edit]computer m (plural computers, diminutive computertje n)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Trió: konpëjutë
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]computer
- inflection of computeren:
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin computāre (“to compute, sum up”). See also the doublets compter and conter.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.py.te/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: computai, computé, computée, computées, computés, computez
Verb
[edit]computer
- (archaic, rare) to compute
- 1802, François-René de Chateaubriand, Génie du christianisme:
- Quant aux ères, ici on compte par l’année de la création, là par olympiade, par la fondation de Rome, par la naissance de Jésus-Christ, par l’époque d’Eusèbe, par celle des Séleucides, celle de Nabonassar, celle des martyrs. Les Turcs ont leur hégire, les Persans leur yezdegerdic. On compute encore par les éres julienne, grégorienne, ibérienne et actienne.
- As the eras, here they compute by the year of the creation, there by olympiads, by the foundation of Rome, by the birth of Christ, by the epoch of Eusebius, by that of Seleucids, of Nabonassar, of the Martyrs. The Turks have their hegira, the Persians their yezdegerdie. The Julian, Gregorian, Iberian and Actian eras, are also employed in computation.
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | simple | computer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | computant /kɔ̃.py.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | computé /kɔ̃.py.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
computes /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
computons /kɔ̃.py.tɔ̃/ |
computez /kɔ̃.py.te/ |
computent /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
imperfect | computais /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/ |
computais /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/ |
computait /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/ |
computions /kɔ̃.py.tjɔ̃/ |
computiez /kɔ̃.py.tje/ |
computaient /kɔ̃.py.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | computai /kɔ̃.py.te/ |
computas /kɔ̃.py.ta/ |
computa /kɔ̃.py.ta/ |
computâmes /kɔ̃.py.tam/ |
computâtes /kɔ̃.py.tat/ |
computèrent /kɔ̃.py.tɛʁ/ | |
future | computerai /kɔ̃.py.tʁe/ |
computeras /kɔ̃.py.tʁa/ |
computera /kɔ̃.py.tʁa/ |
computerons /kɔ̃.py.tʁɔ̃/ |
computerez /kɔ̃.py.tʁe/ |
computeront /kɔ̃.py.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | computerais /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/ |
computerais /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/ |
computerait /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/ |
computerions /kɔ̃.py.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
computeriez /kɔ̃.py.tə.ʁje/ |
computeraient /kɔ̃.py.tʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
computes /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
computions /kɔ̃.py.tjɔ̃/ |
computiez /kɔ̃.py.tje/ |
computent /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
imperfect2 | computasse /kɔ̃.py.tas/ |
computasses /kɔ̃.py.tas/ |
computât /kɔ̃.py.ta/ |
computassions /kɔ̃.py.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
computassiez /kɔ̃.py.ta.sje/ |
computassent /kɔ̃.py.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | compute /kɔ̃.pyt/ |
— | computons /kɔ̃.py.tɔ̃/ |
computez /kɔ̃.py.te/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “computer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English computer.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]computer m (invariable)
- computer (calculating device)
- Synonyms: calcolatore, elaboratore
References
[edit]- ^ computer in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]computer
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English computer.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]computer n (plural computere)
- computer
- Synonyms: calculator, ordinator
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | computer | computerul | computere | computerele | |
genitive-dative | computer | computerului | computere | computerelor | |
vocative | computerule | computerelor |
Related terms
[edit]Romansch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English computer.
Noun
[edit]computer m (plural computers)
- computer
- Synonym: calculater
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pewH-
- English terms derived from Old Latin
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Italic
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English doublets
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/uːtə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/uːtə(ɹ)/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with rare senses
- English terms with historical senses
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with usage examples
- English verbs
- English rare terms
- English nonstandard terms
- English intransitive verbs
- English transitive verbs
- en:Computing
- en:Mathematicians
- Danish terms borrowed from English
- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish terms spelled with C
- Danish common-gender nouns
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/utər
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch unadapted borrowings from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Old Latin
- French learned borrowings from Latin
- French terms borrowed from Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French terms derived from Proto-Italic
- French doublets
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French terms with homophones
- French lemmas
- French verbs
- French terms with archaic senses
- French terms with rare senses
- French terms with quotations
- French verbs with conjugation -er
- French first group verbs
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian unadapted borrowings from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Italian terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/uter
- Rhymes:Italian/uter/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin verb forms
- Romanian terms borrowed from English
- Romanian unadapted borrowings from English
- Romanian terms derived from English
- Romanian terms with audio pronunciation
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns
- Romansch terms borrowed from English
- Romansch terms derived from English
- Romansch lemmas
- Romansch nouns
- Romansch masculine nouns
- rm:Computing